Buenos Aires: Proa, 1925. First appearance of Borges’ essay “El Fausto criollo”, collected the following year in El Tamaño de Mi Esperanza (1926). This issue also includes two poems by Garcia Lorca, “Romance de la luna de los gitanos” and “Soneto”. Read More about El fausto criollo [in:] Proa 2:11, Junio 1925

Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Nosotros, 1926. First edition. Compendium of twentieth century Argentinian poets including Leopoldo Lugones, Enrique Banchs, Evaristo Carriego, Fernández Moreno, Martínez Estrada, A. Storni, Jorge Luis Borges, Córdova Iturburu, Oliverio Girondo, González Tuñón, Ricardo Güiraldes, Francisco López Merino, Leopoldo Marechal, Conrado Nalé Roxlo, Horacio Rega Molina, etc.)..... Read More about Antología de la poesía argentina moderna (1900-1925). Con notas biográficas y bibliográficas...

[Buenos Aires: n.d., ca. 1927]. Unpublished Borges Tribute to His Friend Ricardo Güiraldes. Tribute by Jorge Luis Borges for his friend Ricardo Güiraldes (1886-1927), fellow collaborator on the short lived but influential literary journals Martín Fierro and Proa, and author of the acclaimed novel Don Segundo Sombra (1926). It was..... Read More about Ricardo Güiraldes. Autograph manuscript essay, signed (“J.L.B.”

Buenos Aires: Coleccion Indice. M. Gleizer, 1928. First edition. El idioma de los argentinos was first presented as a talk in 1927 and collected here in book form with other essays. Borges never reprinted this book as the title essay formed part of a new book including Edmundo Clemente’s El..... Read More about El idioma de los argentinos

Buenos Aires: Ediciones Alfa, 1930. First edition, one of 1,000 copies (no. 266). Inscribed. Broges wrote the introductory essay (pp. 9-13) for this collection of the work of Pedro Figari. Inscribed by the author on the first blank, to Argentine art critic Romulado Brughetti: “Estimado Profesor, finalmente le envio al..... Read More about Figari. [At head of cover:] Nuevos Valores Plasticos de America

London: Watts & Co, [1932]. Abridged edition. The Thinker’s Library, No. 26. Signed by Borges, from His Library. Account of a visit to the Torres Straits in 1898, originally published by Methuen in 1901, here in a popular edition and with the ownership signature of Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges..... Read More about Head-Hunters. Black, White, and Brown

Buenos Aires: Francisco A. Colombo, 1933. First edition. Inscribed. This early work gives proof of Borges’ long-standing interest in the Icelandic Sagas and in Nordic literatures. Subsequently collected in his Historia de la eternidad (1936). This copy with a contemporary presentation, inscribed “a Horacio A. Schiavo con la amistad de..... Read More about Las Kenningar

[Buenos Aires: La Prensa, 1935]. Literary essay by Borges on literary topics connected with the beloved classic of gaucho literature, Martin Fierro, but also touching upon Cervantes, Stevenson, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Don Segundo Sombra by his contemporary and friend Ricard Güiraldes. Borges has corrected more than a dozen typographical..... Read More about El Vuelta de Martin Fierro [Tearsheet of newspaper column, marked and corrected by the author in ink

Buenos Aires: Tor, Colección Megáfono, 1935. First edition, one of 250 copies. Inscribed, with Manuscript Addition. Historia Universal de la Infamia is a collection of short narrative prose pieces and an important stepping stone to to the imaginative fictions of the late 1930s and 1940s. It includes Hombre de la..... Read More about Historia Universal de la Infamia

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, [1940]. First edition. Borges’ translation of Faulkner’s novel The Wild Palms. Read More about Las Palmeras Salvajes [The Wild Palms]. Traduccion de Jorge Luis Borges

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, [1941]. First edition. First edition of this anthology of Argentinian poetry. The prologue is by Borges (pp.. 7-11). Read More about Antología poética argentina

Buenos Aires: Sur, [1942]. First edition. Inscribed by Borges. “A Romualdo con la amistad de Jorge Luis Borges” Inscribed on the half title to Romualdo Brughetti (1912-2003), an Argentine art critic and early correspondent of Borges, and regular recipient of inscribed copies of Borges’ works. In the late 1930s, Brughetti..... Read More about Seis Problemas para Don Isidor Parodi. Palabra liminar de Gervasio Montenegro

Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, [1943]. First edition. Borges’ Poetry, Inscribed. Inscribed on the half title, “Para Brughetti, cordialmente, Jorge Luis Borges” Romualdo Brughetti (1912-2003) was an Argentine art critic and correspondent of Borges, and regular recipient of inscribed copies of Borges’ works. In the late 1930s, Brughetti made a study..... Read More about Poemas 1923-1943